On our budget, we were doing OK and sitting in lower mid-table when Schumacher walked out. Our away from was poor but at home, we were very good.
We are now one poor result away from being in the drop zone after 2 months of watching boring, turgid football after being promised a continuation of the attacking football we had become accustomed to. We can barely muster a shot on goal at home, never mind actually win a game.
Our demise is not so much because of the budget, it's more to do with the tactics employed by the Southgate clone that Dewsnip appointed.
I agree with some of what you are saying but you cannot get away from the fact that the club have employed Foster as their head coach and that is not going to change.
He is not going to suddenly change to Shuey's model of playing. It would have been very difficult for anyone to come in when we employed him. The situation got worse when we also lost players. We could not afford to replace them with Championship quality players because of our budget and Foster decided to bring in the England quality youngsters that he knew and could play according to his gameplay.
We do not know what was said between him and DOF, CEO or SH regarding his priorities, it looks as if he had been advised, or he decided, to redress the defensive failures (primarily, in my view, as a result of Shuey's gung-ho tactics, which were unsustainable).
Our forward play was severely disrupted by the return and subsequent sale of Finn Azaz, who could not be replaced due to budget.
It is now down to Foster to ensure the players we have got to get the points that we need, but in my opinion we are less of a team than we were under Shuey or, indeed, than we were last season, which is down to budget.